A planned trip this summer to Cape Town, South Africa, will mark the first time in the Yale Alumni Service Corps’ (YASC) decade-long history that Yale faculty have accompanied the volunteers to a program in Africa. It’s an important milestone, says Joao...
Is it possible to provide a new, multi-faceted look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that welcomes all viewpoints and provides much-needed context to American audiences? Skyler Inman ’17 B.A., believes it is — and her new podcast, “Intractable,” aims...
Dorothy Tegeler ’16 J.D. has suddenly found herself in the national spotlight. Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), the organization she cofounded with three other Yale Law School alumni, is providing legal aid to immigrants making asylum claims — a...
Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S. says she wasn’t entirely familiar with the U.S. college experience when attending high school in Zimbabwe, but when she learned about the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program, she applied and was accepted. “It was the first...
A new study led by Yale University researchers finds that scaling up use of methadone and buprenorphine — medications for treating opioid use disorder known as opioid agonist therapies (OATs) — could greatly reduce HIV transmission rates and prevent...